# ပိ
## Burmese
### Etymology

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (piʼ "pressed, flattened, crushed"). Luce gives Old Chinese 斃 (OC *beds, *bed, “to collapse, die”) as a cognate.”

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pḭ/
* Romanization: MLCTS: pi. • ALA-LC: pi • BGN/PCGN: pi. • Okell: pí

### Verb

ပိ • (pi.)
Burmese verb set :
| Base | ပိ (pi.) |
| Causative | ဖိ (hpi.) |
* to be pressed (down, under, etc.), to be flattened, to be crushed
* to be burdened with

### Adjective

ပိ • (pi.)
* flat; neat

#### Derived terms

(Adjectives)
* ပိရိ (pi.ri.)
(Adverbs)
* ငါးပိသိပ်ငါးချဉ်သိပ် (nga:pi.sipnga:hkyanysip)
(Nouns)
* ခရမ်းပိ (hka.ram:pi.)
* ငြိမ်ဝပ်ပိပြားရေး (ngrim-wappi.pra:re:)
* ငါးပိ (nga:pi.)
* ငါးပိကြော် (nga:pi.krau)
* ငါးပိကောင် (nga:pi.kaung)
* ငါးပိချက် (nga:pi.hkyak)
* ငါးပိထောင်း (nga:pi.htaung:)
* ငါးပိဖုတ် (nga:pi.hput)
* ငါးပိရည် (nga:pi.rany)
* ငါးပိရည်ကျို (nga:pi.ranykyui)
* ငါးပိလိမ္မာကြော် (nga:pi.limma-krau)
* စိမ်းစားငါးပိ (cim:ca:nga:pi.)
* ဆုံထုံးငါးပိ (hcumhtum:nga:pi.)
* တိမ်ခိုးငါးပိ (timhkui:nga:pi.)
* ဓမင်းငါးပိ (dha.mang:nga:pi.)
* ပိစိကွေး (pi.ci.kwe:)
* ပုစွန်ငါးပိ (pu.cwannga:pi.)
* ရေကျိုငါးပိ (re-kyui-nga:pi.)
* သုံးစီးစပ်ငါးပိ (sum:ci:capnga:pi.)
(Verbs)
* ဒဏ်ပိ (danpi.)
* ပိပြား (pi.pra:)
* ဖိ (hpi., causative)
* ဘုန်းပိ (bhun:pi.)

### References

* ↑ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-I and -E Finals (58. to Press, Crush; Crushed)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 13
* ↑ “ပိ” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 633.

### Further reading

* “ပိ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

## Mon
### Etymology

From Old Mon ပိ (piʔ), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *piʔ. Cognate with Nyah Kur ปีʔ, Khmer បី (bəy), Vietnamese ba.

### Pronunciation

* (Myanmar) IPA: /pɔeʔ/
* (Thailand) IPA: /pɑeʔ/, /pɔeʔ/

### Numeral

ပိ (pi)
* three

#### Derived terms

* ပိစှ်

### References

* ↑ Jenny, Mathias (2001). A Short Introduction to the Mon Language.
* ↑ Sujaritlak Deepadung (1996) “Mon at Nong Duu, Lamphun Province”, in Mon-Khmer Studies‎, volume 26, page 417 of 411–418
* ↑ Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language‎, Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 88

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* pi (Latin script)
* 𑀧𑀺 (Brahmi script)
* पि (Devanagari script)
* পি (Bengali script)
* පි (Sinhalese script)
* ปิ (Thai script)
* ᨷᩥ (Tai Tham script)
* ປິ (Lao script)
* បិ (Khmer script)
* 𑄛𑄨 (Chakma script)

### Particle

ပိ
* Burmese script form of pi
** c. 50 BC, ဆဋ္ဌသင်္ဂီတိပိဋကံ သုတ္တန္တပိဋကေ ဒီဃနိကာယေ သီလက္ခန္ဓဝဂ္ဂပါဋိ [Sixth Council Tipitaka: Sutta Pitaka: Digha Nikaya: Silakkhandha-vagga]‎, published 2010, page 171 (၁၇၁):ဧဝမ္ပိ သိက္ခာ ဧကာ သညာ ဥပ္ပဇ္ဇတိ၊ သိက္ခာ ဧကာ သညာ နိရုဇ္ဈတိ။ အယမ္ပိ သိက္ခာတိ ဘဂဝါ အဝေါစ။evampi sikkhā ekā saññā uppajjati sikkhā ekā saññā nirujjhati. ayampi sikkhāti bhagavā avoca.'Thus also is it that through training one idea, one sort of consciousness, arises; and through training another passes away. This is the training I spoke of', said the Exalted One.

### Conjunction

ပိ
* Burmese script form of pi (“even”)
** c. 50 BC, ဆဋ္ဌသင်္ဂီတိပိဋကံ သုတ္တန္တပိဋကေ ဒီဃနိကာယေ သီလက္ခန္ဓဝဂ္ဂပါဋိ [Sixth Council Tipitaka: Sutta Pitaka: Digha Nikaya: Silakkhandha-vagga]‎, published 2010, page 171 (၁၇၁):ဧဝမ္ပိ သိက္ခာ ဧကာ သညာ ဥပ္ပဇ္ဇတိ၊ သိက္ခာ ဧကာ သညာ နိရုဇ္ဈတိ။ အယမ္ပိ သိက္ခာတိ ဘဂဝါ အဝေါစ။evampi sikkhā ekā saññā uppajjati sikkhā ekā saññā nirujjhati. ayampi sikkhāti bhagavā avoca.'Thus also is it that through training one idea, one sort of consciousness, arises; and through training another passes away. This is the training I spoke of', said the Exalted One.